Maybe those special payments to get private insurers to take Citizens customers were not needed after all. At least two such beneficiaries are back for more Citizens customers without deal-sweeteners.

Ten private carriers are ready to take close to 400,000 customers from state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. in November — including a donor to Gov. Rick Scott’s political committee whose deal earlier this year drew scrutiny. That’s St. Petersburg start-up Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance Co.

Heritage would take up to 50,000 customers. It would get no special payments to take those customers, unlike a controversial deal Citizens approved this spring to pay Heritage up to $52 million to take as many as 60,000 policyholders near the start of hurricane season on June 1. Heritage gave $110,000 to Scott’s Let’s Get to Work committee shortly before the agreement.

Weston got up to $63 million to take up to 31,000 coastal customers earlier in the year.

At the time, Citizens officials argued the special payments were necessary because the private companies faced greater risks taking customers near the start of hurricane season, as opposed to November or December. Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford, among others, expressed “serious concerns” about the way Citizens was spending ratepayers’ money.

Citizens CEO Barry Gilway has said it could be a “record-breaking” year, surpassing the approximately 300,000 customers who moved to private insurers last year.

Citizens has 1.2 million customers including about 124,000 in Palm Beach County. That’s down from about 1.5 million statewide and close to 150,000 in the county near the start of 2012.